{"id":11384,"date":"2011-08-29T16:14:10","date_gmt":"2011-08-29T20:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=11384"},"modified":"2011-08-29T16:15:17","modified_gmt":"2011-08-29T20:15:17","slug":"11384","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2011\/08\/11384","title":{"rendered":"Lenny Kravitz: A One-Man Gang"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Growing up in America was never as simple as black and white for Lenny Kravitz.<\/p>\n<p>As the child of African-American actress Roxie Roker and Jewish TV  producer Sy Kravitz, Lenny says he didn\u2019t totally fit with any group.<\/p>\n<p>But he wouldn\u2019t have had it any other way.<\/p>\n<p><strong>It always seems odd you cut these urban-sounding tracks in The Bahamas.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It doesn\u2019t matter where I am. People think if I\u2019m in The Bahamas that  the music is going to be Caribbean or island-like or mellow. But I  carry the music inside of me, so the location provides me with the peace  and tranquility to create, but it doesn\u2019t make the album turn out that  way.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.torontosun.com\/2011\/08\/29\/lenny-kravitz-a-one-man-gang\" target=\"_blank\">complete interview<\/a> of Lenny by \t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDarryl Sterdan,QMI Agency<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"468\" height=\"298\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/2yXCW1AbEEw\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"468\" height=\"298\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/2yXCW1AbEEw\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Lenny Kravitz in his Bahamas studio recording the final track for &#8220;Black  And White America&#8221; (Roadrunner\/Atlantic Records). With Craig Ross on  guitars. The First song from the album, &#8220;Come On Get It&#8221; now available  on iTunes.<\/p>\n<p>A Film by Mathieu Bitton \/ Candy Tangerine Productions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Growing up in America was never as simple as black and white for Lenny Kravitz. As the child of African-American actress Roxie Roker and Jewish&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[46,22],"class_list":["post-11384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-celebrities","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}